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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death of sungura legend Leonard Dembo.  He died in 1996.  Dembo’s real name was Leonard Tazvivinga as opposed to Kwangwari Gwaindepi as is widely reported.  In fact, Kwangwari Gwaindepi was his grandfather and that...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the US, was asked by one African- American woman from Harlem what plans he had for a free South Africa since all newly independent African countries never seemed to have the...

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Angela Campbell and lessons from history

A PARAGRAPH describing how Angela Campbell’s photograph survived the inferno that gutted Benjamin Freeth’s...

The shame underneath the Pope’s robes: Part Two

By Mashingaidze Gomo IN his Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on November 11 1965 Christian...

Compensation gives Muchemwa’s book new meaning

By Mashingaidze Gomo RETIRED Brigadier-General Dr Felix Ngwarati Muchemwa is gone. He has joined many...

The shame underneath the Pope’s robes: Part One

AS the impasse between some churches and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education...

National School Pledge: Is ignorance not death?

WHEN I looked at the National School Pledge, I was hard-pressed to find anything...

Kanengoni’s departure an echoing silence

LIBERATION war veteran and writer Cde Alexander Kanengoni’s passing away has hit us like...

Western human rights a mirage

NON-Europeans who have been following the so-called ‘migrant crisis in Europe’ should by now...

When human rights champions become xenophobic

   IN recent news, European states have been putting up razor wire curtains against the...

Tracing history of security sector reforms: Part Two

BY far, the worst security sector reform ever imposed on us Zimbabweans was the...

Tracing history of security sector reforms: Part One

THE drive to reform Zimbabwe’s security sector constitutes a whole discourse whose study is...

Stephen Sackur’s paranoia

STEPHEN Sackur, the BBC HARDtalk host was recently in Zimbabwe, clearly on a shameless...

AU and Commonwealth principles not compatible

IN Zimbabwe, Africa Unity Square, the place so-named to commemorate African Unity, is a...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...